List of personalities of the city of Perleberg

This list contains personalities of the city of Perleberg in Brandenburg. The list does not claim to be complete.

Honorary citizen

Surname	Born	Died	Awarded honorary citizenship	Profession / activity
Merchant Otto Mertens			March 20, 1858	longtime city councilor
Gottlieb von Haeseler	January 19, 1836 in Potsdam	October 25, 1919 in Harnekop	January 26, 1887	Commander of the 11 Perleberg Uhlan Regiment he formed
Karl Schabrod	October 19, 1900 in Perleberg	March 31, 1981 in Düsseldorf	October 16, 1961	communist politician

Mayor since 1649

Term of office Surname 1649 Georg Krusemark and Johannes Konow 1650 Bernhard Straube and Clemens Konow 1651 Johannes Konow and Georg Krusemark 1652 Clemens Konow and Bernhard Straube 1653 Georg Krusemark and Johannes Konow 1654 Bernhard Straube and Clemens Konow 1655 Clemens Konow and Johannes Konow 1656 Georg Krusemark and Johannes Konow 1657 Clemens Konow and Mathias Hasse 1658 Johannes Konow and Georg Krusemark 1659 Mathias Hasse and Clemens Konow 1660 Georg Krusemark and Andreas Krusemark 1661 Clemens Konow and Georg Krusemark 1662 Andreas Krusemark and Georg Krusemark 1663 Mathias Hasse and Clemens Konow 1664 Andreas Krusemark 1665 Clemens Konow 1666 Mathias Hasse 1667 Andreas Krusemark 1668 Clemens Konow 1669 Mathias Hasse and Bernhard Straube 1670 Clemens Konow and Daniel Ratiche 1671 Bernhard Straube and Mathias Hasse 1672 Daniel Ratiche and Clemens Konow 1673 Mathias Hasse and Bernhard Straube 1674 Daniel Ratiche and Mathias Hasse 1675 Daniel Ratiche and Bernhard Straube 1676 Mathias Hasse and Bernhard Straube 1677 Daniel Ratiche and Mathias Hasse 1678 Bernhard Straube and Daniel Ratiche

Term of office Surname 1679 Mathias Hasse and Bernhard Straube 1680 Daniel Ratiche and Mathias Hasse 1681 Bernhard Strabe and Daniel Ratiche 1682 Mathias Hasse and GEorg Krusemark 1683 Daniel Ratiche and Mathias Hasse 1684 Georg Krusemark and Daniel Ratiche 1685 Mathias Hasse and Georg Krusemark 1686 Daniel Ratiche and Mathias Hasse 1687 Georg Krusemark and Daniel Ratiche 1688 Mathias Hasse and Georg Krusemark 1689 Mathias Hasse and Georg Krusemark 1690 Georg Krusemark and Stephan Konow 1691 Georg Krusemark 1692 Georg Krusemark and Andreas Stappenbeck 1693 Andreas Stappenbeck and Georg Krusemark 1694 Johann Heinrich Tancke and Georg Krusemark 1697 Johann Konow 1710 Georg Christian Neumann 1714 Johann Konow 1715 Bernhard Stappenbeck 1717 Georg Konow 1719 Johann Michael ax 1727 Joachim Christian Dietrich Hindenburg 1728 Petrus Schultze 1730 Karl Heinrich Schultz 1733 Eusebius Christian Hichtel 1757 Hindenburg 1757 Hindenburg 1770 Samuel Ludwig Betich 1783-1788 Daniel Christoph Salpius

Term of office Surname 1789-1795 Guticke and Senger 1796-1821 Johann Bernhard Stappenbeck 1821-1822 Johann Sigismund Schrötter 1823-1842 Friedrich Heinrich Eggebrecht 1843-1849 Cochius 1850-1851 Fineisen 1852-1854 temporary administration by Sitzmann 1854-1854 from Kopplow 1854-1866 Rhode 1866-1877 Reinefarth 1877-1884 Richard Berger 1885-1893 Hugo Kneisel 1893-1902 Dr. Hugo Kronsich 1902-1909 Felix Schoenermarck 1910-1919 Alexander Pohl 1919-1924 Erich Moll 1925-1937 Erich Mende 1937-1945 Dr. Wilhelm Handelmann 1945-1947 Rudolf Borsch 1947-1951 Emil Klein 1951-1952 Gerhard Eggert 1952-1966 Hans-Günther Grabow 1966-1973 Hans Scherke 1973-1989 Karl-Heinz Tesch 1989-1993 Dr. Friederike Fischer 1993-2004 Dietmar Zigan 2004-2007 Manfred Herzberg 2007-2015 Fred Fischer since 2015 Annett Jura

Source: Council of the City of Perleberg (ed.): 750 years of Perleberg. Print shop SVZ Wittenberge, Perleberg 1989, p. 32ff.

sons and daughters of the town

Surname	Born	Died	Profession / activity
Joachim Tancke	December 9, 1557	November 17, 1609	Physician, poet, astronomer and rector of Leipzig University in 1593 and 1599
Joachim Meier	August 10, 1661	April 2, 1732	Baroque writer
Ernst Georg Sonnin	June 10, 1713	July 8, 1794	Engineer and architect in the age of enlightenment
Ludwig Wilhelm Neumann	July 7, 1762	November 30, 1847	Councilor of Justice and honorary citizen of the city of Berlin
Carl Ludwig Theodor Schlomka	August 13, 1821	November 22, 1894	Reich judge
Otto Schlomka	November 1, 1823	0 0 1884	Member of the Reichstag
Ernst Ehrenbaum	December 20, 1861	May 6, 1942	biologist
Traugott von Jagow	May 18, 1865	June 15, 1941	Administrative officer and politician
Walther von Jagow	August 19, 1867	March 27, 1928	Officer, most recently general of the cavalry
Max Zeisig	1867	1937	photographer
James Broh	November 9, 1867	0 0 1942	Lawyer, publicist and left-wing politician
Rudolf Bosselt	June 29, 1871	January 2, 1938	Sculptor, medalist and reform pedagogue
Anna of Palen	May 26, 1875	January 27, 1939	Silent movie star
Erich Zweigert	November 20, 1879	October 23, 1947	Administrative lawyer
Gustav Wölkerling	May 4, 1882	October 23, 1954	spy
Walter Graf von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt	July 13, 1887	May 9, 1943	General in World War II
Karl Mohns	September 18, 1887	August 5, 1939	pilot
Lotte Lehmann	February 27, 1888	August 26, 1976	German and American opera singer
Otto Kannengießer	August 19, 1893	October 9, 1958	Politician (NSDAP)
Hermann-Heinrich Behrend	August 25, 1898	June 19, 1987	Officer, most recently major general in World War II
Fritz-August Wilhelm Markmann	September 23, 1899	March 13, 1949	Lord Mayor of Magdeburg
Karl Schabrod	October 19, 1900	March 31, 1981	communist politician, member of the state parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia
Alfred Burgemeister	July 22, 1906	April 23, 1970	CDU politician, member of the Bundestag
Eleonore Dörner	November 20, 1912	June 8, 1997	Germanist and writer
Paul Lüth	June 20, 1921	August 6, 1986	Doctor and publicist
Hans-Joachim art	July 5, 1929	February 7, 2007	Art historian
Hubert Fichte	March 21, 1935	March 8, 1986	writer
Armin Hiller	December 22, 1938		diplomat
Jens Witte	February 11, 1941	June 12, 2003	Surgeon in Augsburg, President of the BDC
Rosemarie Ambé	February 7, 1941	June 16, 2014	Pop singer and television presenter
Jürgen Borchert	May 25, 1941	March 1, 2000	Columnist on topics from the Prignitz and Mecklenburgs
Werner Lehfeldt	May 22, 1943		Slavist
Dörte von Westernhagen	August 5, 1943		Writer
Peter Wellmann	August 26, 1943	May 29, 2014	Politician (SPD)
Karsten Witte	June 8, 1944	October 23, 1995	Film scholar
Christian Spiering	0 0 1948		physicist
Norbert Thiede	April 3, 1949		Discus thrower, Olympian 1976
Christina Voss	July 7, 1952		Handball player
Thomas Domres	4th July 1970		Politician (PDS, Die Linke)
Frank Rieger	6th December 1971		Hacker, non-fiction author, technology journalist, internet activist and one of the spokesmen for the Chaos Computer Club (CCC)
Tino Schopf	October 29, 1974		Politician (SPD)
Gordon Hoffmann	December 31, 1978		Politician (CDU)
Benjamin Mielke	February 6, 1981		Bobsledder
Fait-Florian Banser	February 20, 1982		Soccer player
Stefanie Thurmann	March 25, 1982		Marksman
Robert Bläsing	November 27, 1982		Politician (FDP)
Stefan Uhmann	April 28, 1986		Volleyball and beach volleyball players

People whose work is connected to Perleberg

Surname	Born	Died	Profession / activity
Gottfried Arnold	September 5, 1666	May 30, 1714	Pastor in Perleberg, author of the "Unparty Church and Heretic History" (1699/1700)
Benjamin Bathurst	March 14, 1784	disappeared November 25, 1809	British diplomat who disappeared in Perleberg on November 25, 1809 in a way that has not yet been clarified
August Heinrich Höpfner	August 24, 1830	March 12, 1901	Senior teacher in Perleberg and city poet
Paul Albert Glaeser-Wilken	August 3, 1874	4th August 1942	Actor and director, gave language and speaking lessons in Perleberg from 1939 until the end of his life; Grave site in Groß Buchholz .
Lisbeth Glaeser-Wilken	April 1, 1887	April 11, 1977	Actress and teacher, wife of the actor Paul Albert Glaeser-Wilken , lived in Groß Buchholz from 1939–1953/54 and gave piano lessons in Perleberg at that time
Hermann Henneberg	August 31, 1904	April 1, 1984	Sports doctor and namesake of a running group
Eva-Maria Hagen	October 19, 1934		came to Perleberg with her family after the Second World War and went to school here for a few years
Angela Merkel	17th July 1954		Federal Chancellor, moved with her family to the village of Quitzow shortly after her birth , where her father took up a position as pastor
Jürgen Rogge	born 1940		Psychiatrist and writer doctor , worked in his own branch from 1991 to 2005

literature

• Christine Sernau: Profiles from the Prignitz district. Citizens of Our Time, Vol. 1, Schwerin 2002, ISBN 3-932746-34-1 .
• Christine Sernau: Profiles from the Prignitz district. Citizens of our time, Vol. 2, Schwerin 2003, ISBN 3-932746-42-2 .

Web links

• Prignitzlexikon ( Memento from October 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive )